Bookshelf
If Aesop is right and a man can be judged by the company he keeps a mind can perhaps be judged by the books it reads (or desires to?).
Below are books that I've liked and disliked, loved and hated, laughed about and cried into. Most of them, though, are yet to be read. Of the ones I have read I've starred those I found particular insightful or moving. Just like my physical bookshelf, they are in no particular order. If I've read the book in another language (I squeak by in French and Spanish) I've left it in the original.
Some other people whose book recommendations I always find interesting:
-Patrick Collison
-Tyler Cowen
-Ben Casnocha
In no particular order:
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Hard Landing:The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
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Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Graz Schumpeter Lectures)
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Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A study in Ethics and Politics
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
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Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War
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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor